View from apt in nonhyun-dong; the weather was pretty good - only one day was cloudy/rainy...  usually was cool at night yet sunny and just warm enough during the day.

  I did NOT expect to see so many Coffee Bean's out there!  We don't even have them here on the East Coast!! 

More yummy food with Bernie's family...

Towards the end of our stay, B was interested in more "western food"...

The first time we went looking for some, the most non-Korean we could find was donkatsu!

Later when visiting Ewha Univ (had to do one "korean" pic), we found some Italian food in the area...

Namdaemun shopping and picture of the WALL surrounding the remnants...

Our last night in Korea, had another family dinner with my mom's side...  my brother and I had spent some time with them when we were much younger, so the only stories my aunts and uncles were telling were ones of Brian!  we were at a sushi restaurant, and a couple aunts remember that Brian never ate fish, so they said they'd have to go to a Korean restaurant when he visits the next time!  how he stood, crossed arms, pouting...  there was more, but I can't remember...  haha...    anyway, look at the exotic fish! 

After a few days in Seoul, we headed over to Yanji to visit my parents.  It's located on the eastern edge of the border btw China and N. Korea, but takes twice as long as it should because you have to fly way around N. Korea to get there. 

Even in Yanji, there's Wal-Mart and KFC!  but food at home was really yummy... and mom goes crazy with them violets!

On the university campus there's a foreigner church that we went to on Sunday: dad's in the choir!

There's some funny English going on in other parts of the world...

We visited Baek Do San or Chang Baik Shan or Great White Mountain from where the first Korean man is legended to have come from...  unfortunately, I forgot to charge my camera battery and here I only have pics of the way up...  B has the other pics; we'll have to post some - those are the impressive ones...

We also visited a border city called Do Mun or Tumen...  you pay extra to get onto the bridge and stand at the border to North Korea and you also get to get a view from on top of the building with the red roof...  You can see some North Koreans walking around on the other side of the river...  and you can see the pictures of the Great Leader on the buildings... 

The first thing we did was to go visit some of Bernie's family and the area where his family has resided for a couple generations.  It's interesting to learn about one's family history and good to be able to put faces and places to names and stories.  Then we strolled through the "central park" of seoul - an inlaid stream, several feet below the nearby cars and buses. 

We had a nice little (very post-wedding) reception with Bernie's mom's side of the family at the Plaza Hotel... even had cake that we sliced together!

Street food: tempura-on-a-stick!

 Mandoo jungol!  with little rice cakes...  yum!

Visiting my grandpa in a senior center in Bundang: eating lunch at the cafeteria there...

Buying glasses in Bundang!  we have the new frames on, but didn't get a close-up 

to be cont...